Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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New Mexico firm uses motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities

July 5, 2017 • Sandia Labs provides a fourth year of technical help ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Their size and strength convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe, New Mexico, there had to be a way to harness...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, desalination, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, wave power

NM construction companies awarded $135 million in Sandia contracts

May 25, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Fourteen New Mexico companies, most of them small businesses, have been chosen to provide about $135 million in general, electrical, mechanical and civil construction work at Sandia National Laboratories. The companies are subcontractors for the labs and will compete for individual construction projects as they occur, said...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, construction, contracting, economic impact, national labs, partnerships, procurement, small business

More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise

April 25, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to speed the commercialization of next-generation technologies and gain a global competitive advantage for the U.S. “Sandia is excited to bring these small businesses together with our scientists and engineers...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, small business, small business vouchers, tech transfer

Power partners: Sandia draws industry into quest for cheaper, cleaner electricity

March 16, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is working with three industry partners to commercialize a distributed power system that can produce cheaper, cleaner, more efficient electricity. The labs signed three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with Peregrine Turbine Technologies of Wiscasset, Maine; Xdot Engineering and Analysis of Charlottesville, Virginia; and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: brayton cycle, business, collaboration, distributed power, economic development, electricity, energy, partnerships, power cycle, tech transfer

Energy work brings Sandia Labs two national technology transfer awards

February 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a heat-exchanger technology that makes power generation more efficient. And Sandia won the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey TRANSITGRID...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, energy, flc, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...

Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, licensing, national labs, renewable energy, solar, solar glitter, tech transfer

Small, NM businesses key factor in Sandia’s 2016 economic impact

January 12, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent more than $1 billion on goods and services in fiscal year 2016, up more than $56 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 37 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, contracting, economic development, economic impact, national labs, procurement, small business

Kirk McWethy, owner and president of SDV Construction Inc. of Albuquerque, has been a Sandia contractor since 2006. His service-disabled veteran-owned small business has 44 employees and has completed numerous construction projects at the Labs, including an addition to Bldg. 905 shown in this photo. “I love being a Sandia contractor because it is a true partnership. Both sides work to make the other successful,” says McWethy, an Air Force veteran. “The people at Sandia want us to succeed and continue to grow.” (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Face to face: Sandia Labs invites businesses to talk contracts

December 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies that want to supply products and services to Sandia National Laboratories have a new way to learn the ropes. Sandia now is offering open houses where small and diverse suppliers can talk to staff and contracting experts about doing business with the labs. The first open...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, government contracting, national labs, procurement, small business, suppliers

Sandia National Laboratories supplier diversity specialist Patricia Brown, right, and Theresa Carson, senior manager of Policy, Assurance and Outreach, greet business owners at a Sandia supplier open house. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson)

Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage

December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, CRADA, economic impact, energy storage, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia Science & Technology Park gives local economy a major boost

December 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) has generated $2.6 billion worth of economic activity and produced more than $103 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $15.2 million for the City of Albuquerque since it was established in 1998. That’s the conclusion of...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, partnerships, tech park, tech transfer

Katie Wieck is a student at the Technology Leadership High School, one of the 40-plus businesses and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Small businesses can apply for Sandia clean-energy help

October 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the third round of its Small Business Vouchers Pilot, which lets companies in the clean-energy sector apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other DOE labs. Johanna Wolfson, Technology-to-Market director in the office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Tech transfer awards recognize Sandia’s work in eye tracking, hydrogen refueling, heat exchange efficiency

September 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won three regional 2016 awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Mid-Continent/Far West regions recognized Sandia’s achievements in the following innovations: GazeAppraise: Eye Movement Analysis Software, which won a Notable Technology Development Award;...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, economic development, flc, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Haass demonstrates how an eye tracker under a computer monitor is calibrated to capture his eye movements on the screen. Haass and others are working with EyeTracking Inc. to figure out how to capture within tens of milliseconds the content beneath the point on the screen where the viewer is looking. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image

X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia’s XTK software

September 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three people and injured more than 250, and techs quickly had to determine if more were waiting...

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb squads, defense, Homeland security, national labs, tech transfer, X-ray, XTK

More small businesses get Sandia help in clean-energy voucher pilot

August 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “These are innovative companies working to build the clean-energy economy,” said Mary Monson, Sandia’s senior manager of industrial partnerships....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, partnerships, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Lessons from Fukushima

August 16, 2016 • Sandia helps industry learn from Japanese reactor accident ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –When you’re an operator or engineer at a nuclear power plant, there are things you want to know long before you’re faced with an emergency. Reactor safety experts from Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere are sharing lessons learned in Japan’s...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: energy, Fukushima, national labs, nuclear accident, nuclear power

DOE funding moves two Sandia energy programs closer to the marketplace

June 27, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories are among 54 energy projects that will receive nearly $16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help bring them to market. The projects involve 12 national labs and 52 private-sector partners. Funding comes through the Technology Commercialization...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, energy, national labs, tech transfer

Lab know-how: Small companies grow with a technical leg up from Sandia, Los Alamos labs

June 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine driving a car with no fuel gauge and no idea how big the gas tank is. You want to go as far as possible before filling up but not so far that you sputter to a halt. “That’s what it’s like to operate an electric plane...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Sandia’s California site invites community to 60th anniversary celebration

May 11, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. –Sixty years ago, the Giants played baseball in New York and the Athletics in Kansas City, Dwight Eisenhower was president and Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site in the city of Livermore, which at the time had a population of under 10…

Categories: Community / Education, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: 60th Anniversary, 60th Anniversary Community Event, additive manufacturing, algae, Altergy, Bankhead Theater, California Fuel Cell Partnership, Combustion Research Facility, cybersecurity, Explosive Destruction System, Fuel Cell Mobile Light, Jill Hruby, Livermore, Marianne Walck, National Security talks, Sandia California, Sandia National Laboratories, SpinDx

Sandia Labs tapped again to lead national solar evaluation centers

May 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won a three-year renewal of a Department of Energy contract to manage the U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs), a network of five sites across the country where industry can assess the performance, reliability and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The program currently...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, partnerships, PV, renewable energy, RTCs, solar, solar electricity, tech transfer

CRADA boom sets records, forges ties at Sandia Labs

April 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories entered into a vast array of new Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) in the past three years, bringing dozens of new partners to the labs. “This is a great mechanism for getting national laboratory technology into the private sector,” said Sandia CRADA specialist...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, CRADA, economic development, partnerships, R&D, small business, tech transfer

Small businesses to work with Sandia on clean technologies

March 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it’s chosen seven small clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “Sandia is excited to help these companies commercialize their products and advance the clean-energy economy,” said Jackie Kerby Moore,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Interactive map shows thousands of Sandia Labs collaborations across U.S.

March 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories signed more than 5,000 U.S. partnership agreements in the past five years touching every state in the country, and has created an online map that brings them to life. “The map illustrates the amazing breadth of work Sandia does with industrial, university, government and...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, partnerships, tech transfer

Suicide bomb detector moves forward with Sandia engineer’s help

February 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On the chilling list of terrorist tactics, suicide bombing is at the top. Between 1981 and 2015, an estimated 5,000 such attacks occurred in more than 40 countries, killing about 50,000 people. The global rate grew from three a year in the 1980s to one a month...

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb detector, business, collaboration, economic development, Homeland security, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, suicide bombing, suicide vest, tech transfer

Sandia Labs takes home three national tech transfer awards

February 4, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Business development specialist Bianca Thayer was named Outstanding Technology...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, commercialization, economic impact, flc, national labs, tech transfer

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